Zama ICO at a $55M Floor

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How the Zama Sealed-Bid Auction Works

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Table 1: Initial bids (Alice $5, Bob $4, Charlie $3)

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Table 2: Allocation (Alice 400, Bob 600, Charlie 0)

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Zama Price Dynamics

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How to Participate in Zama ICO

Conclusion

Zama public auction — DropsTab Research

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Zama’s public auction offers entry at a $55M FDV—over 94% below its $1B VC valuation. Here’s how the sealed-bid sale works and why demand may run far higher.

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Blockchange Ventures

Protocol Labs

Zama Public Auction

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Big Brain Holdings

United States of America

Protocol Labs is a research, development, and deployment lab for network protocols.

No Limit Holdings

Avalanche VC is an early-stage technology investor in massive trends.

Avalanche VC

Filecoin

Akave

Blockchange Ventures is an investing firm that invest in early-stage blockchain companies, protocols, and applications.

Lightshift Capital

Blockchain Builders Fund

Sfermion is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on the immersive internet. Sfermion's mission is to accelerate the emergence of the metaverse by investing in the companies and founders who are shaping our digital future.

Sfermion

Village Global is a network-native, early-stage VC firm with ~$500M AUM, chaired by Reid Hoffman, and backed by tech’s best.

Village Global

Collab+Currency is an early stage venture investor focusing on web3

Collab+Currency

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers early-stage funding to software, internet, and communications companies

RRE Ventures

Lit Protocol

Germany

1kx is a venture capital firm that stands at the forefront of the blockchain and crypto space, focusing on investments in decentralized technologies and blockchain-based projects. Founded by Christopher Heymann and Lasse Clausen, 1kx has established itself as a key player in identifying and supporting early-stage companies that are pushing the boundaries of innovation in the crypto ecosystem.

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a_capital

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6MV (6th Man Ventures)

The CMT Group has acted as a valued collaborator to numerous exchanges, clearing firms, and trading and investment teams, generating edge by pairing market insight with early adoption and innovation of nascent technologies.

CMT Digital

gumi Cryptos Capital is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem.

gumi Cryptos Capital

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Tribe Capital

Singapore

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

United Kingdom

G1 Ventures is an active early-stage venture investor with core focus on blockchain.

G1 Ventures

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Shima Capital

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Kleiner Perkins

Colombia

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Lattice Capital

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Alpha Edison

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Tomer London

California Innovation Fund

TransCrypts

Global Millennial Capital

Decentralized VC

CMS Holdings may also invest in early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects through private investments and strategic partnerships. They provide capital and support to innovative startups in the crypto space.

CMS Holdings

Switzerland

CV VC is an investment company, where cutting-edge blockchain technology meets traditional venture capital.

CV VC

Thomas France

Nicolas Pinto

Dieter Fishbein

Lincoln Gomes

Reppo

Moonshots Capital

Spexi

Canada

Dapper Labs is a consumer-focused flow blockchain product made for fun and games and supports digital collectables.

Dapper Labs

Alliance is the leading crypto accelerator and founder community.

Alliance

Vinny Lingham

FJ Labs

Adam Jackson

InDro Robotics

CyLon Ventures

Slovakia

Zee Prime Capital is a VC firm based in Bratislava, Slovakia. Investing in programmable assets and early-stage founders globally.

Zee Prime Capital

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Anatoly Yakovenko

Finality Capital Partners

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Lattice

RW3 Ventures invests in the infrastructure, protocols, and applications that are driving growth in blockchain technologies, decentralized finance, and the long-term development of web 3.

RW3 Ventures

Blockcast

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HashKey Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused venture capital and investment firm based in Hong Kong. They specialize in funding and supporting early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, startups, and companies.

HashKey Capital

OKX Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality and promising projects, with an initial capital of $100 million.

OKX Ventures

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Amber Group

P2 Ventures is dedicated to supporting visionary teams across the multichain ecosystem. We invest at the earliest stages across all categories in web3.

P2 Ventures

India

Sandeep Nailwal

Cayman Islands

ArkStream Capital is a crypto fund dedicated to growing Web3.0 unicorns.

ArkStream Capital

Illia Polosukhin is a Co-Founder at NEAR.

Illia Polosukhin

MH Ventures is a world-class community-backed venture capital investing in top blockchain projects of the future.

MH Ventures

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Ambush Capital

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Symbolic Capital

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Mozaik Capital

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DWF Labs

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Faculty Group

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Parasail

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Borderless Capital

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Red Beard Ventures

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GS Futures

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dlab

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Juan Benet

ConsenSys Mesh

Arca

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CoinFund

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Distributed Global

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Erik Voorhees

Scott Moore

Joe Lallouz

Andrew Kang is a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and investor. He is the Co-Founder of Mechanism Capital which invests in cryptocurrency through prop trading, mining, ventures, and secondary markets. Kang previously worked in portfolio management and venture capital at Digital Capital Management.

			Stage	Investors
Akave	$6.65 M	~$66.50 M	Seed Round	+2		Layer-2	Mar 2, 2026
LITKEY Lit Protocol	$1.37 M	~$13.70 M	Funding Round	+2	--	Infrastructure	Oct 20, 2025
TransCrypts	$15.00 M	~$150.00 M	Seed Round	+8		Blockchain Service	Oct 8, 2025
REPPO Reppo	$2.20 M	~$22.00 M	Funding Round	+4	--	Infrastructure	Jan 17, 2025
Spexi	$11.50 M	~$115.00 M	Series A		--	Blockchain Service	Dec 5, 2024
Akave	$3.45 M	~$34.50 M	Pre-seed	+1		Layer-2	Nov 11, 2024
Blockcast	$2.85 M	~$28.50 M	Seed Round	+4		Blockchain Service	Oct 15, 2024
Compute Labs	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Pre-seed	+17		Blockchain Service	Jul 3, 2024
Parasail	$4.00 M	~$40.00 M	Seed Round	+9		DeFi	May 28, 2024
WXM WeatherXM	$7.70 M	~$77.00 M	Series A	+10		DePIN	May 22, 2024
Prime Intellect	$5.50 M	~$55.00 M	Seed Round	+9		Blockchain Service	Apr 23, 2024
ZAMA Zama	$73.00 M	~$730.00 M	Series A Round	+5		Privacy Coin	Mar 7, 2024
Metropolis	$1.20 M	~$12.00 M	Funding Round	+6		Social	Feb 15, 2024
GLIF	$4.50 M	~$45.00 M	Seed Round	+5	--	DeFi	Feb 6, 2024
Exabits	--	--	Pre-seed	+6		Infrastructure	Feb 1, 2024
The Bagel Network	$3.10 M	~$31.00 M	Pre-seed	+3		Blockchain Service	Jan 23, 2024
Canza Finance	$2.30 M	~$23.00 M	Strategic Round	+9		Blockchain Service	Jan 16, 2024
web3mine	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Seed Round		--	Infrastructure	Dec 20, 2023
SPON Spheron Network	$7.00 M	~$70.00 M	Funding Round	+6	--	Blockchain Service	Oct 18, 2023
Anytype	$13.40 M	~$134.00 M	Funding Round	+8		Blockchain Service	Aug 23, 2023

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